Looking back to 2015, snow pack was 89 percent below average across the state, leading to low river levels, and affecting irrigated crops and causing the most severe wildfire season in the northwest history. It led to the burning of more than 1.5 million acres.

Mote says 2015 is now the "example year" for what's to be considered the new norm, and it's costing us.

“It's not chunk change to have an event like that,” said Mote. “The impacts on the ski industry that year were on the order of $100 to $200 million.”

Along with near $700 million worth of agricultural losses in Washington. That could echo in Oregon.

So, what's causing all of the devastation?

Mote says most of the state's carbon footprint boils down to the average Oregonian who produces vehicle emissions, and imported electricity from other states who produce with coal.

Begging the question if we should re-vamp our fossil fuel industry..

“So there are a lot more jobs in renewable energy and energy efficiency than in the fossil fuel industry which is capital intensive,” said Mote.

Mote also says as the Napa Valley warms in California, winemakers will look to the Willamette Valley for wine grapes.